Boa Constrictor 'On The Loose In Portsmouth After Being Thrown In Hedge'

A boa constrictor is on the loose in Portsmouth after it was dumped by a man who reportedly had it wrapped around his neck.

It is believed the snake-wearing man unceremoniously threw the creature into a nearby hedge after being refused a ride in a taxi because of his exotic pet.

Steve McGovern, a landscape gardener who tends to the shrubbery around Furze Lane, Milton, told Portsmouth News: "All I got told was a man got picked up by a taxi and he had a snake wrapped around his neck.

"The taxi driver said ‘there’s no way, you are getting in here with that’ so he threw it in the hedge so he could still get in the taxi.

“It then drove him to wherever he was going. I don’t know what to make of it.”